LG doesn’t want Samsung to steal all the bendy limelight this year
In its recent financials, LG dropped in a tantalising morsel for the future of its smartphones in 2019: phones that come with 5G and could very well be foldable.
We’ve heard rumor of a flexible smartphone from the South Korean brand for a while now, with the first thoughts being that it would arrive at CES this year, but it seems that it’s tipped for later in 2019.
In the latest financial results, LG believes it will have a strong year for its mobile division thanks to pushing ‚ 5G products and smartphones featuring different form factors‘. That’s likely to be on top of the more ’normal‘ LG G8 we expect to see at MWC 2019 in a few weeks‘ time.
While it could be argued that ‚different form factors‘ could be a mere flip phone or smaller ’standard‘ smartphone, flexible handsets are set to be the headline devices of this year, offering new form factors that bring real differentiation to the market.
